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Inspired by the need to enhance critical thinking via means of literature within the contexts of English as a foreign language in higher education, the current paper seeks to delineate critical thinking in terms of four points: higher-order thinking skills, critical reading and writing, strategies for discussing literature in the English classroom, and research studies of interest and relevance to the concerned field. To maximize effectiveness, the current paper concludes with several recommendations for researchers to take into consideration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Most universities and educational institutions follow conventional learning. E-learning utilizes electronic technologies to deliver curriculum beyond traditional means, which presents many challenges. E-learning is also a way to access all programs and receive awards for certificates and degrees online. It presents a formidable communication media between teachers, professors, and students attending online classes. This paper focuses on the objectives and mechanisms to achieve the necessary changes to accomplish the required learning objectives. It will also highlight the challenges facing the students, instructors, and decision-makers at executive levels in educational institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research is devoted to studying the motivation of students to continue their education in the higher education system - in the magistracy, graduate school and the system of additional postgraduate professional education. During the study, first-year and fourth-year students of the Institute of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism of Petrozavodsk State University were interviewed. The relevance of this research paper is to identify the main motivesamong junior and senior students for continuing their education, taking into account the socio-economic situation in the Russian Federation and in the world at the moment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The world pandemic situation affects all economics sector and specially education; the objective was to show new models of learning to mitigate the negative impacts of the pandemic. Qualitative and reflexive methodology is used from grounded theory, this paper proposes to the student, teacher and Higher Education Institution (HEI) from its ontology in teaching process with its features and B-learning method relation. It is concluded the relevance participation of HEI and government as fundamental actors to alleviate the negative impacts of COVID-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A language is better, if not exclusively, learned in context. Since languages are representative of the culture of their speakers, EFL teaching/learning through the literary creations of a language can be beneficial in many respects. To mention a few, it encourages and fosters tolerance, lateral thinking and purposeful language use, provides varied and wide instances and possibilities of language use, and exposes learners to real-life situations of the target language. Literature is thus an important, if not indispensable, addition to EFL courses and curricula. However, the task of selecting appropriate literary works for inclusion in foreign language syllabi is a challenge that requires sufficient attention and taking carefully considered and well-thought-out measures in its own right. The experience of teaching EFL in Saudi Arabian universities shows that learners are, in general, disinclined, and at times even outright averse, to studying literary content in spite of the fact that they have a few years of exposure to it prior to the university. Literature, nevertheless, is an inseparable component of syllabi in higher education institutes. This paper aimed to find the reasons for this and elaborated on the benefits of literature in enriching and enhancing EFL learners' experience. It also proposed ideas to make reading literary texts an interesting experience for EFL learners. The focus of the study is the assessment of the attitudes and perceptions of sophomore EFL learners and teachers in College of Languages and Translation, Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMBSIU) and College of Sciences and Arts, Methnab, Qassim University (QU), towards studying literature in English. The study tried to reconcile, and bridge, learners' literary preferences with educational goals in respect to literary components in Saudi EFL classrooms. The findings were manifold but overall showed improved outcomes following the administration of the treatment, especially in terms of motivation, engagement and communicative output. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a comprehensive training model in the context of strategic and continuous action of the Institutional Educational Project of the University of Antofagasta. The methodology used is specialized literature review and institutional documents. The training model presents a holistic perspective that seeks to transcend the professional vision to promote diverse dimensions of the human being from subjects and electives in face-to-face and bi-learning modalities. It is concluded that its implementation is in installation stage and is seen as an alternative that allows progressively to count with professionals who have skills that effectively can face the challenges of the context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chilean higher education reform draws increasing attention not only in the national community but also internationally, particularly in Latin America. Taking this into account, the present article provides an analysis of the conceptual framework that underlies the reform of Chilean higher education law. Initiated by the government of President Bachelet (2014-2018), this reform is studied in its main features of policy formulation and design. In addition, we look at the way the proposed legislation frames the relationship between universities and the state, the state's role vis-à-vis higher education and its funding to ensure universal and free access. Based on secondary information and literature, this paper critically reflects on the policy approach of the reform project and its core ideas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The internal communication management in an organization represents, somehow, the way in which that organization catches or not members of it. Within this management, social networks allow, engage in an informal, but institutional dialogue with partners. This paper shows the union professors communications management in one faculty of the Universidad del Zulia, during the period 2010-2015, through various digital platforms of social networks. Interview and documental research were the way to collect data. It was observed a sustained increase in the unionized response, to the management communication of the branch, showing a constant and two-way interaction that previously did not exist. This experience leads to the conclusion that, for the Union, social networks, represent an alternative to empower communicatively the unionized, not only to keep informed in real time of events that can happen in their university environment, but also given the opportunity to take positions about the environment and to have an influence on it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relationship among politics, power, communication and culture are here examined, along with the new technologies role in that relationship. It is emphasized the function of universities in the production of useful knowledge for the citizens in their political and social relationships, specially in the construction of their political discourse in democracy. The paper of the media political protagonism is here criticized, while opportunities offered by the 1999 Venezuelan Constitution and the new laws and regulations are underlined, considering them as tools for citizens empowerment in their rescuing of the speech in the political scene. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies one aspect of the career of Ernesto Nelson (1873-1959) covering moreover the years in which he belonged to the National University in La Plata, and evaluates his university career which is quite different both in relation to the policies implemented in the same by its founder and president Joaquin V. Gonzalez (who governed during three consecutive periods: 1908-1918), and from the new policies that were part of the university reform (1918). Nelson affirms, from a liberal point of view, that the state is the principal cause of the decadence in the Argentine university system, and adopted in this manner a position which separated him from both the Liberal Conservatives and from the 1918 Reformists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]